The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-29
WhitwOrth COllege-COmmencement
Exercises.

Special to N. o. Picayune.l
BRooKHAvEN, Mss, June 21.-To-day
was the third and most brilliant day of
Whitworth College commencement, which,
all in all, is the most brilliant occasion of
the kind known in the State of MISSISSIPPI
pi. More than 5000 people, had assem-
bled in Brookhaven to hear Robert L.
Taylor, the orator Governor OF Tennessee.
This audience was composed of the most
distinguished and cultivated people of the
State, among whom were Bishop Galloway,
DR.. j. J. Wheat, G. L. Ridley, of Nash
vile, ex-Congressman Barksdale, State
Treasurer Hemingway, Auditor Stone,
Judge Chrisman, and other high officials.
The immense audience that had filled
every available seat and space in the mag
nifcently decorated chapel had expected
from
GOVERNOR TAYLOR,
a grand oration-one ripping with hum
or, scintillant with wit and beautiful in
thought and imagery. Made famous as
orator by his brilliant gubernatorial cam
Tic uSBuCh VI 1dhQOu, u nay uSS,
the matcLless Tennessee orator, and the
son of Nathaniel Taylor, the bulwark of
the old wings in matters of debate and
stump oratory, Governor Taylor in his
effort to-day proved himself worthy of his
ancestry and his reputation.
Opening with beautiful description of
| the shadow of sadness that brooded over
| Eden itself until it was lit by the smile of
| woman, he passed on to a beautiful eulogy
| of the woman of to-day and a unique and
humorous description of the sweet girl
| graduate-that happiest creature in the
| world-that brilliant conglomeration and
sum total of human wisdom and eloquence.
intellectually speaking" he said, ''she is
brimful of gush, dash, splash and flash,
| and literally powdered with Jewels of ide-
atty and poetry" He next described her
| dreams, wherever glittered marble halls,
| jewels, and gold roses, and rainbows, and
| grander than all-spring bonnets on every
tree.
He next pictured how in contact with
| the actualities of the world the dream
light would die out In a life, and roses
| would blossom out into patches on the old
mans pants, and the grand piano m aterial-
ize into 8 Singer sewing machine, whose
song would be the song OF the shirt. Work,
not pleasure, is the watch-word of the age
No rest, but eternal energy is the law of
life, manifested alike in star and atom, in
dew drops and ocean and especially is it
fitting that this universal law of work
should be obeyed and manifest in man, the
highest of Gods creatures. Under the i'm :
pulse of work American thinkers and in
| ventors have subdued and bridled all the
Unframed and revolutionary forces of ma
ture and made them ministering servants
to man. America is the grandest country
OF the world. Here are more societies for re-
forming somebody and prohibiting some
thing. Here there is no limit to enterprise
: and shrewdness. On Monday we buy a
bowling wilderness; on Tuesday We Law il
out in lots; on Wednesday we proclaim
through the press the grandeur of this
great new city not made with hands: on
Thursday comes the grand picnic and the
} city is born amid the bray of bands and
/ orators; on Friday We water the stock;
/, on Saturday we unload at a grand profit
on Sunday we rest and worship; on Mon
) day we go into the banking business and
our families start to Europe. We keep on
, hand an endless stock of natural resources
and booms, and import patriots and ex
q port cashiers to Canada.
We invented the great American book
: agent, and have doctors that get in more
solid work for the undertakes and ceme-
teries than did the angel of the Lord on the
armies OF Senacharib. We have the know
INCEST boys, the handsomest men especial
~ governors), and the prettiest women in
!, the world.
!; The Grafton ended with an exquisitely
4 beautiful eulogy of woman's mission Of
! life, love and mercy.
This evening at o'clock the Alumna
e Association convened with Miss Luis
y Ragsdale as President, and Miss Raiford
], ~ Secretary. The orator OF the evening